Our team of multi-disciplinary clinical staff at The Children's Crisis
Care Center are experts in working with abusive and neglectful
families and maltreated children. This experience and expertise
supports The Center's philosophy that early assessment and
intervention increases the likelihood of a healing future for the
traumatized child.

To
this end the Center provides:

Comprehensive
early evaluations of families and all physically abused and neglected children (within 30 days
of CPS placement).

Moving
Toward a Safe and Promising Future4C's
Permanency Planning Program

Permanency
Planning Team (PPT) Meeting

Every
child who comes into the custody of CPS has a right to a safe and
nurturing permanent placement as soon as possible. Both Texas law
(Senate Bill 34) and the best interest of children dictate that a
permanent plan be finalized within a year of a child's placement by
CPS.

The
Children's Crisis Care Center Permanency Planning Program provides the
opportunity for the important people in each child's life to meet
regularly in order to plan and work towards the best permanency plan
for that child.

Convened by community professionals with expertise in child placing
and permanency planning, these Permanency Planning Teams (PPT) develop
and monitor the progress of the plans for the child and family.

Family
Conferencing - A New CPS Initiative for Permanency Planning

HCPS
– Children’s Crisis Care Center (4Cs) program has recently joined
with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to
launch a new Family Conferencing Initiative.Family Conferencing is a decision making process that utilizes
the strengths of the family, the resources of the community and the
CPS agency to develop achievable, culturally-sensitive plans to ensure
child safety and well being.

It
is a voluntary activity where family members, family support systems,
service providers and the community gather to address the future of
the child.

Family
Conferencing recognizes that families have the strengths and desires
to protect their children within their family by sharing the
responsibility for children’s safety. This process acknowledges the
extended family’s knowledge and life-long attachments to the child
and offers community support to meet the family’s needs.

Family
Conferencing is being used nationally and internationally as a tool in
Child Welfare services and has proven to be extremely effective in
getting children out of foster care and into relative and kinship
placements.

In the Houston
District the feedback from families regarding the process has been
overwhelmingly positive.

To report abuse or
neglect call Texas Abuse Hotline1-800-252-5400 or go to www.txabusehotline.org.Note: The 1-800 number is monitored 24 hours a
day.
E-mail messages are not monitored daily.
Thank you for contacting CPS in Harris County web-site. The problems of child abuse and youth at
risk cry out for community solutions. We cannot do it alone and need your help.
Join CPS to protect children. There are some things done better together: raising a barn,
building a rocket, but most importantly... protecting a child.